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by Funes- 1y ago
The "shit" to "good" ratio in literally every field was much less skewed to the "shit" side before smartphones and social media came along. It's always this same fallacy: "hey, that was always a thing
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by Funes- 1y ago
Everyone's.
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by Funes- 1y ago
Every monopoly is predicated upon abusive, anti-competitive and unlawful practices, as well as exemptions and unearned subsidies from governments. Always. Many people aligning with megacorporations wouldn't support "capitalism&quo
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by Funes- 1y ago
Guys, it's been over for a while now. And I mean decades... This is just one of the next steps in the path that's been laid out in front of us since the general population reached critical mass on the Internet and the ruling class
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by Funes- 1y ago
>Since Trump is as borderline fascist as von der Leyen... If you think any democrat president wouldn't do the exact same, I don't know what to tell you...
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by Funes- 1y ago
None, I'd bet. Can't you see this is just about tightening their grasp on our liberties, swaying our opinions, and selling our data? Organised religion could be going for that (minus the data, at least not in the current sense) in
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by Funes- 1y ago
We're going to see more and more crackdown on internet access, in the name of making it "safe", or "safe for kids", particularly. All they want is pushing for censorship and control, though, on top of collecting and
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by Funes- 1y ago
If I need to buy a phone made by Google to get away from Google, I'm just not doing it. /e/ doesn't support my current smartphone, either, and postmarketOS is not functional. At this rate, I think we're better off g
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by Funes- 1y ago
If there ever was a case to switch to crypto payments...
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by Funes- 1y ago
I think we aren't far from GrapheneOS being rendered unusable. We desperately need to make Linux phones viable daily drivers. Desperately. It's the only way we'll have access to critical funcionality while being independent f
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by Funes- 1y ago
>The title is click-bait. Click-bait!? On HN's frontpage? Oh, say it ain't so!
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Pornhub and other porn sites to introduce 'government approved' age checks in UK(bbc.com)
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by Funes- 1y ago
Yeah, the possibility of any of them being a honeypot I'd say is real.
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by Funes- 1y ago
Absolutely not, not to the same extent. That's a really illogical statement on your part, considering that the technical barrier to entry to even begin to think about developing a program in 1980 was much, much higher than what it&#x
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by Funes- 1y ago
>Under capitalism, because greater margins Under capitalism, or late-stage capitalism, if you will, more efficient procedures aren't normally allowing for greater margins. There are countless examples of more exploitative and wastef
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by Funes- 1y ago
And the quality of what they develop is in the gutter, on average.
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by Funes- 1y ago
"{straw man}" - most HN users.
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by Funes- 1y ago
With all the morally reprovable shit they've pulled on their users, it's always been time for Signal.
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by Funes- 1y ago
You should've made sure of how Signal works with regards to chat history before you removed the app from the old phone.
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by Funes- 1y ago
>doing it with their own memecoin instead of something that's already well established is a massive red flag. It is. You want to reward people for their work in a private and reliable way? Monero's right there.
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by Funes- 1y ago
You got this exactly right. I've been trying to sound the horn on this issue for years now, since GPT-3 got released and exploded into the mainstream and you could read and hear "you don't need to {x} anymore with AI" al
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by Funes- 1y ago
How ironic. "AI" feeds off structured knowledge, artistic creations and otherwise any human production to generate its output. As a consequence of its widespread adoption, people start to lean even more towards consuming rather
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by Funes- 1y ago
>Check out the simpler Internet through the gemini protocol [0]. Heh. I've been around the block in terms of compulsively trying to find alternatives to the ill-fated world wide web, my friend. I've hosted content on many of th
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by Funes- 1y ago
Nice site. I miss the pre social media, pre-hypercommercial, pre mass surveillance Internet of old. It was mostly the product of genuine, sincere self-expression. Now it feels and even works like an infomercial, a scam, everywhere you look,
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by Funes- 1y ago
Well, offering less and less features for more money each time could be the main culprit, I reckon. The bot issue is also huge, of course. I'd like to see data on the male-to-female ratio in terms of users, too...
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by Funes- 1y ago
They're probably bluffing to an extent, but just picture the dystopian scenario we're all heading towards: you're watching anything that's not {MegaCorporation or Government}-Approved Content™ on your TV and all of a sud
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Match to lay off 13% of staff as number of paid users fall(techcrunch.com)
7 points by Funes- 1y ago|3 comments
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by Funes- 1y ago
Most books are junk entertainment, and not what they're, in fact, falsely purported to be. We live in the most insincere period in history thanks to the malign coupling of late stage capitalism and pervasive interconnectedness (smartph
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by Funes- 1y ago
This bothered me a lot in the past. I want to be in full control of any information that is on the Internet concerning myself. Some of the people I know will add an appeasing comment before taking a picture: "don't worry, I won&#x
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by Funes- 1y ago
>Germans take a 1 hour lunch from 12-1pm. Spaniards have a later lunch, starting around 1pm, and going on until 4 or 5pm. This could possibly be due to the tradition of afternoon siesta. This is not only untrue, but I would argue it also

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